Ryze

By FacefulOfRyze

11/26/2013 2:53:17 PM

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This guide is for Mid Lane Ryze, by FacefulOfRyze, a Diamond I mid laner. This guide will show you how to play the rogue mage in what I consider to be the best way possible. With constant DPS from his Q ryze will always be a threat during a fight.

Keep in mind that this is a very standard build path, and that it isn't set in stone. Sorcerer's Shoes can be swapped for Mercury Treads if the enemy team is CC-heavy, Abyssal/Void Staff can take the place of WotA if you find that you're not in need of the spellvamp, and Seraph's Embrace should sometimes be built instead of Muramana. This will be discussed in further detail in the item build section on page 3.

Why would you buy a manamune, instead of an Athene's Holy Grail?

Of all the items you could get on Ryze, Athene's is just slightly better than an Infinity Edge in terms of usefulness (maybe not even). First of all, with a Frozen Heart, masteries, and Overload passive, you have 40% CDR, and Athene's CDR would be useless. Second Athene's is AP, so unless there's something else about it, a straight max mana item would be better. Manamune's makes Ryze's autoattacks like Ryze's spells in that they scal of his max mana pool, which is basically 300 bonus AD in late game, and 300 extra damage on all his spells. Athene's mana font is useless because you have too much mana to care a couple dozen spell combos (3000 mana), so basically, the only good thing about Athene's is the mana gain passive. That is nowhere near enough to warrant 2600 gold and an item slot.

grail wastes a lot of CDR in stats and mana regen is pointless on a champion like ryze that mostly needs a mana pool since he has multiple rotations in fights (see: anivia, nidalee, etc), and in ryzes case it directly amplifies his damage since all of his abilities scale with mana. finally, the ap is meh on ryze as well at that point.

also why does this guy go for manamune anyways l0l. seems like he messed up. people go seraphs nowadays since manamunes passive damage was changed from magical to physical so its pointless unless you get a last whisper rofl.

Manamune still gives 300 AD and 300 bonus damage on each spell cast. Because it's physical, it makes Ryze hard to itemize against, as if you build all MR items Ryze will still deal more than 300 damage on every spell cast. If you want offense, Manamune is the best you can get. If you want defense, Seraph's Embrace has a nice shield

What's the reasoning about having 3 mastery points in Awareness over Strength of Spirit? I would have thought the 3.75% extra experience wouldn't matter too much compared to +3HP regen for each 400 mana, especially considering how much manaRyze will acquire.

Another reason would be that, with Ryze, you want to get to late game as soon as possible. Ryze's laning phase has always been weak, but after the nerfs to his range, he is even weaker in lane. Just farm, harass when you can get it for free, and try to make it to late game.